Ap Us Chapter 5

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population in colonies (1700-1775)

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1770:300,000( 20,000 0f this is black)
1775: 2.5 mil...and about .5 mil of this is black. 1775: 90% of pop is rural. Virg, MA, Penn, and Maryland -- most populous colonies

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Dr Samuel Johnson

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an Englishman mad aboutthe rapidly growing American pop.

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ethnic diversity in the colonies

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in 1790: 49% (of pop) English.
6% Pennsyl. Dutch (aka German), 7% Scots-Irish

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Pennsylvania Dutch

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Germans living in Pennsylvania. lived in backcountry. kept to thier native language. not loyal to the crown.

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Scots- Irish

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Presbyterian Lowlanders. not irish, but they pushed into ireland, but werent prosperous there. so they come to Am and look for land more west and south. readily attack indians they encounter ...and they dont like the british crown who suppressed them.

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Andrew Jackson

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a Scot-Irish. part of the Regulator movement in N Carolina... which was against eastern dominance of colonial affairs.. later becomes a US president

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Michael- Guillame de Creyecoeur

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french settler in Am in 1770s. sees mix of cultures and asks "what makes an american?"

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poor whites

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the lower, poor class in the south... mostly tenant farmers

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jayle birds

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paupers and convicts who were involuntarily shippes to Am. about 50,000 sent here by Eng

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small pox

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disease that his 1 in 5 ppl in Am

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Cotton Mather

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Puritan clergyman and scientist. favored using innoculation for smallpox when most others objected.

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the colonial economy

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90% of Am industry is agriculture. fishing in New Eng. commerce -- merchants buy stuff from Eng and then sell it to colonists for a big profit.

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triangular trade

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take a product, and trade it for slaves in Africa. ..then trade the slaves for raw materials... then start the process over again by making a product out of the raw materials

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professions in the colonies

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there were few skilled laborer, and they were highly prized. ex: a carpenter murdered someone but was freed b/c his work was in demand.

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shipbuilding in the colonies

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400 new ships made per year... mostly in New Eng. ..b/c shipbuilding is big, lumbering is also very imporant... b/c you need lots of wood to build the ships

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trade imbalance between Britain and Am colonies by 1730s

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Am pop growing quickly, so they want more Eng products. ...but Eng pop not really growing, so they dont need Am products... so Am sees that they have to seek foreign markets for thier exports and then use the money they get from that to buy Eng products.

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Samuel Adams

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hung out in taverns where revolutionary talk was often heard.

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intercoastal postal system in mid 1700s

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slow and infrequent service. ...no sense of privacy (carriers read the letters to pass the time)

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Molasses Act

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1733. Eng parliament passes law to try to supress Am trade w/ French west Indies.. Am doesnt want to follow it, so they smuggle and bribe to get around it

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Religious Census 1775

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Congregationalists: 575,000 (mainly in New Eng)
Anglicans: 500,000 (in New york and south mainly)
Presbyterians: 410,000 (mainly on frotier)

...congregat and anglic supported by taxes.

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Great Awakening

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1730s and 40s...religious revival in colonies. new sects of churches come along b/c ppl are split between staying with old ways or accepting the new. this is the 1st mass movement of the Am ppl

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Jonathan Edwards

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started Great A in Northampton, MA in 1734... said salvation is not through good deeds, but through dependence on God's grace

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George whitefield

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very effective evangelical preacher. thinks that ppl are helpless and god is omnipotent

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"new light" ministers

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emotional and theatrical ministers (like the two above men) who defend the Great A. new light centers of higher learning are est'd : brown, princeton, rutgers, and dartmouth

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education in the colonies

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not just for elite males (as in Eng)... but most are boys. puritans in New eng are into education so ppl can learn to read the bible. schooling doesnt work so well in south b/c plantations are really far from each other... so tutors are used. education is generally religiously-based

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Phillis wheatley

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a slave girl poet in boston. works published in a books of poems in Eng. ..influenced by Alexander Pope

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ben franklin

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wrote poor richard's almanac. launched 1st nondenominational college in Am: U of Pennsylvania. called the '1st civilized American".. also into literature and science

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John Peter Zenger

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newspaper printer who wrote something negative about the royal governor of NY. alexander hamilton defended zenger in court and won (by appealing the idea of liberty to the jury)

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politics in the colonies

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most had a 2-house legislative body: 1. council: chosen royally. 2.lower house: chosen by ppl.
counties rule the south. town meetings in new eng. some governors chosen by the ppl, some chosen royally.

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Richard bushman

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wrote :From Puritan to Yankee (1967). viewed colonial Am and expanding and opening... ie: losing its relig and social structure as they spread to frontier.

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gary nash

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wrote: The Urban Crucible (1979). said the desparity between rich and poor broke up communities and fueled the Am Revolution

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christine heyrman

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wrote : Commerce and Culture (1984). says the abandonment of old ways is overstated.. religious beliefs and commercial activity coexisted in 17th and early 18th centuries

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edmund s. morgan

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wrote : American Slavey, American Freedom (1975) . said that rich and poor whites came together to ensure racial supremecy